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AUSTIN ANTHONY/HERALD Doug Hix, left, and Dwayne Alvey, Scott's Waste employees of Bowling Green, cook hot dogs and burgers on their grill before the WKU game against Austin Peay Saturday. The Toppers went on to win 49-10 in front of a crowd of 16,237.
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Fans tailgate throughout the Hill ANNA ANDERSON DIVERSIONS@WKUHERALD.COM WKU fans flocked to campus Saturday to cheer on the Toppers in their first game of the season against Austin Peay State University. Despite the construction and the heat — and then the torrential rain — tailgaters clad in red and white still pitched their tents, fired up their grills and hunkered down until game time at 6 p.m. “This is our school,” said Fred Meyer of Kenway Concrete in Bowling Green. Meyer, a season ticket holder who camps out near Gilbert Hall, has tailgated at WKU football games since he was a student from 1990 to 1993. Since the WKU football team became Football Bowl Subdivision members., Meyer said the Tops have been playing bigger
schools with loyal followers who travel with their teams. WKU students and alumni should have a strong presence, too. For the past eight years, Meyer said he has been tailgating with the same group of friends and their children. “It’s a meeting place where all the kids can come together,” Meyer said. But tailgating doesn’t just bring together Meyer and his friends. The whole lawn becomes a community. Meyer attributes this closeness to WKU’s policy requiring tailgaters in premium sections to purchase specific parking spots. For him, being around the same people from week to week helped him meet more WKU supporters. “Everybody is really nice,” said Heather Wade, a 2001 graduate of WKU. SEE TAILGATING A2
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SHELBY ROGERS NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM The next six years at WKU have been outlined in a new action plan, a plan that includes raising tuition each year. The plan, “Challenging the Spirit,” focuses on four goals: enhancing academics, contributing to a diverse community, enhancing the quality of life in the region and continuing to preserve the institution. It was publicly released at the Aug. 24 faculty and staff convocation and can be accessed on the university website. President Gary Ransdell said this action plan was a return to structure from the financial instability that shaped the university’s strategic planning for the past four years. “I believe strongly in a strategic planning process that is simple, measurable and structured in such a way that you can clearly identify
Source: numbers calculated based on WKU's strategic plan
and report progress… instead of a list of ‘want to be’ or ‘want to do’ things,” Ransdell said. Students can look forward to “improved academic quality, improved campus infrastructure and a greater campus diversity,” over the next
six years, Ransdell said. The plan also reveals that each objective will be funded by a steady 5 percent tuition increase each year over the six-year period. SEE ACTION PLAN A2
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CONTINUED FROM FRONT Wade, who is an attorney in Bowling Green, said this was her first year buying a spot for the season. Originally, she had wanted to be on South Lawn close to the Preston Center, but she wasn’t able to get a space there because of the renovations of Downing University Center. Yet, Wade said that she liked her spot on the lawn near McCormack Hall and would probably enjoy tailgating there for years to come. “I couldn’t be happier,” she said. Ken Frascinelli said WKU implemented this year’s tailgating changes well. His children and their spouses graduated from WKU, and they’ve been tailgating for about five years.
“I was impressed by the way they handled us coming in today,” he said. Meyer was also happy with the new tailgating arrangements, though he
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said he was disappointed when Saturday’s Topper Walk, the football team’s boisterous walk from the top of the Hill to Smith Stadium, was cancelled because of the rain. Aside from the smell of barbecue and the sound of party music wafting through campus, there was also a sense of expectation for the coming season. “We’ve got good momentum going into this season,” Wade said. “So I’m pumped.” Frascinelli said he was expecting eight wins this season, beginning with the Toppers 49-10 victory over Austin Peay. Meyer is certain that WKU’s football team will do better than last season. He’s been rooting for WKU through the switch to Division I-A in 2009 and the subsequent years until last season’s turnaround. This season, he thinks the Tops will win big. “We’ll get a bowl game,” he said.
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WE'VE GOT GOOD MOMENTUM GOING INTO THIS SEASON. —Heather Wade 2011 WKU Alum
CRIME REPORTS Due to Labor Day office closings, the College Heights Herald was unable to attain the crime reports for the weekend. The Herald will post the reports later this week on wkuherald.com.
Photo credit correction Due to a Herald error, Jeff Brown, a photographer for College Heights Herald, was incorrectly identified as the photographer for the football image on page A5 for Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Austin Anthony was the correct photographer. The
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NEWS BRIEF: EXCHANGE STUDENTS JOIN WKU WKU’s Office of International Programs welcomed 18 new exchange students, bringing the total number of exchange students at WKU up to 22. The students arrived
a week before the start of fall classes for orientation. President Gary Ransdell hosted the students at his home on Aug. 22 and held a welcome dinner at the faculty house on Aug. 24.
WKU has exchange student agreements with nearly a dozen different institutions around the world and hosts around 50 exchange students every year. -Herald Staff
NEWS BRIEF: WKU HOSTS GOLF EXPO WKU will play host to the fourth annual Collegiate Golf Alliance/Play Golf America University Program Expo on Sept. 14. The expo will take
place on South Lawn from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to promote the playing of golf on college campuses. Free mini-lessons from PGA professionals, chal-
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Ransdell said this tuition raise is in response to consistent budget cuts by the state government over the last four years. Ransdell said he hoped the state would resume funding public universities, instead of cutting more money from their budgets. “There’s some degree of optimism, if not hope, in these revenue assumptions,” he said. “If these assumptions are not realized, then it will be harder to achieve the measures we’ve outlined in this plan.” One action plan objective for improving WKU academics is increasing the number of Honors College graduates by 50 percent. Craig Cobane, executive director of the Honors College, said he looks forward to meeting that objective. “Building a stronger honors program not only helps honors students but the overall student population as well,” he said. “It keeps talented students and faculty in Kentucky who would otherwise leave the state.” Ransdell also hopes WKU’s academics improve by having more students become
lenges, contests, hitting stations, and a minigolf course will make up many of the activities available for students. -Herald Staff
national and international scholarship recipients to bring more attention to the university. Director of the Office of Scholar Development Audra Jennings said the goal mentioned in the action plan is ambitious. “By setting an ambitious goal of increasing national and international scholarship recipients four-fold, the university is encouraging WKU students to dream big,” Jennings said. In terms of infrastructure, the plan includes WKU’s campus construction priorities, focusing on the $50 million completion of Downing University Center and an estimated $22 million construction of an Honors College facility, which would also house the International Center, according to the report. Full-time faculty can hope for a 15 percent pay increase over the next six years, according to the action plan. “A university is a complex structure,” Ransdell said. “You’ve got faculty, you’ve got students, you’ve got alumni, parents, elected officials, and the public, and they all need something different from the university in their minds. “But you’ve got to start with the faculty and meeting their needs.”
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DOROTHY EDWARDS/HERALD Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity celebrates after greeting their new members during Bid Day on Friday at Centennial Mall.
Fraternity recruitment concludes SARAH STUKENBORG NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM
Formal fraternity recruitment came to a loud conclusion on Friday when the 14 participating fraternities gathered in the courtyard outside of Downing University Center. The fraternity recruitment process began Aug. 27, ending with the bid day ceremony outside of DUC. New pledges rushed out from DUC to be greeted by their new “brothers” gathered in the courtyard. Not even the rain could wash the excitement from the air. Landon Turner, a freshman and new member of Sigma Chi, showed his excitement at being recruited into the fraternity. “I really like all the people — it’s been a lot of fun,” Turner said. Alissa Mansfield, Greek Affairs Coordinator, said 249 men registered for recruitment this year, up almost 100 from the number of participants last year. Some of the fraternities, such as
Pike, caravanned to campus. The men sat in backs of trucks waving their chapter flags and cheering. The different fraternities wore matching T-shirts with quotes such as “Doing it the American way” and “Love, Honor, Truth” displayed across their backs. Tyler Shaw, a junior and a member of Sigma Nu, walked around with a snake perched atop his shoulders. “Her name is Sammy, and she’s kind of like our mascot,” Shaw said. Although not the official mascot of Sigma Nu, Sammy made quite the scene. The fraternities hosted events such as cookouts in order to get to know the potential new members and decide whether or not they were a good fit for their fraternity. Grant Snowden, a junior and member of Delta Tau Delta, said he enjoyed recruitment week. “My favorite part was getting to meet all the new guys,” Snowden said.
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It's time for Topper fans to show up THE ISSUE: Coming off an impressive 7-5 season, this past Saturday, WKU’s football team put on a dominating performance, defeating Football Championship Subdivision school Austin Peay 49-10. However, only 16,327 fans were in attendance to watch the Toppers' first home win of the season. OUR STANCE: Plain and simple, there should have been more people at the game. WKU ended last season bowl-eligible but was not invited to play in the post-season, with many speculating our lowly home attendance was a factor. It’s time for students to show up and support their team. Last season, WKU, at 7-5, was one of two bowl eligible teams in the nation and the only team with a winning record to be left out of a bowl game. We finished 7-1 in our conference — good enough for second place, but not good enough for an automatic bowl game or an invite. It was cited by then-athletics director Ross Bjork that one of the reasons WKU didn’t get the bowl bid was poor attendance WKU averaged during the season. Smith Stadium seats approximately 22,000 people. Yet, WKU averaged 15,310 fans in those seats at home games in 2011. The 16,327 that came out on Saturday is not nearly enough for what is needed to prove to a bowl committee that the Toppers deserve an invite. The reason being, a bowl committee looks to make money from their game. One of the ways to gauge that is by looking at the home attendance
record of the teams they may invite — and WKU’s attendance was the third lowest among bowl-eligible teams. Not an enticing statistic for those looking to make money. It must be taken into consideration that there was rain forecasted throughout Saturday as well as it being Labor Day weekend. Yet, at the end of the day, those are excuses. The rain ultimately held off throughout the game, and considering students began to arrive on campus a little more than a week ago, it’s a bit early to be heading home for the weekend. The fact of the matter is that we have a surging football team with a promising season, and the students who attend the school will not show up to support them. Bowl committees want to know that the team they invite has fans who will purchase tickets. Why invite a team whose fans won’t even attend home games? The excuses are starting to sound like old news. Gone are the days where WKU was on season-long losing streaks and getting blown out by other schools. They are starting to win, and it’s beginning to not be that big of a surprise anymore. Who is to say that WKU will not be in the same position at the end of the season as they were the last? And who is to say fans won’t be on social media begging for a bowl game on the committee’s Facebook and Twitter pages making promises that they will be there? While there are many factors that go into being selected for a bowl game, WKU must do two things to sell themselves as being worthy: have
their football team win more than six games and have their fans show up and fill the stadium. The team has gotten off to the right start, but the fans haven’t. WKU football cannot do this all by themselves, and last year proved that winning games simply is not enough to be given a bowl game. The entire season is being watched. If fans were as upset as they claimed to be at the end of last season, now is the time to show up and prove they will support their team.
Students get into home games at no cost. Put on one of the many free red T-shirts you've accumulated during your time on the Hill, grab your red towel, and stand up and cheer. With the way our football team is playing, you should get a good show.
This editorial represents the majority opinion of the Herald’s 14-member editorial board.
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Handbag designer arises on campus MONTA REINFELDE DIVERSIONS@WKUHERALD.COM In two days, New York Fashion Week will be in full swing and well-known fashion designers will present the upcoming spring/summer collections. Meanwhile at WKU, a new handbag designer is coming to prominence. If you see girls on campus carrying voluminous tote bags, initialed wristlets, colorful messenger bags or drinking water from bright, personalized cups, it might not be Vera Bradley. There’s a good chance those items are designed and made by Louisville senior Julia Katherine Weis. Weis, who majors in child studies, started JuliaKateDesigns at the end of May 2012, right after putting in her two weeks’ notice at Sweet CeCe’s. In less than four months, her designs have become popular nationally, and her success has skyrocketed. “I have customers from here to New Orleans, to New York City, to wherever in between,� Weis said. “It is really spread through Facebook and word of mouth. It is crazy.� Weis remembers her mom and grandmother sewing when she was a child. Like a lot of kids she said, she wanted to do what her mom did. “I started out by putting fabrics together with tape and staples,� Weis said. “And my mom said, ‘Oh, no! Let me show you how to actually sew.’ And I just went from there.� The process of creating bags is one of those things that set her apart from other designers. Weis said her customers are usually involved in making their own original bags from picking out design, color and even fabric. “My motto is: ‘You dream it. I create it. Others envy it,’� Weis said. “I have certain bags that I make a lot, but people come to me when they want something custom-made too.� Bowling Green junior Morgan Sowders recently
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purchased a zebra-print messenger bag from Weis and said she is very satisfied with it. “I love the quality,� Sowders said. “It is thick, and it is very well made. She [Weis] loves what she does, and she makes things the way consumer wants them to be made.� Butler County sophomore Maggie Smith said she has bought a couple of things from JuliaKateDesigns, too. She agreed with Sowders and added that she enjoyed participating in the creating process. “She [Weis] is so nice and helpful with everything,� Smith said. “She takes her time so I know that it is great quality, not just thrown together for money. I feel like she is so talented.� Along with the promise that her bags won’t fall apart, Weis said she offers them at a good price,
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Financial planning leads to success, less stress WKU Financial Success Initiative, and it’s open to not only students but also almost anyone Living in today’s world as a col- who is concerned or has a queslege student has become very tion about their finances. expensive. A little over $4,000 “We hope to have a broader will buy you a semester’s worth financial counseling program of tuition, and a few hundred where we’re discussing people’s more will buy your textbooks, budgets, their debt issues,” but what about a roof over your Head said. head, food and other expenses? For students, the main issue What’s it all going to cost you? that they usually bring to him WKU’s website lists is about money, but that’s a hefty price from only what it starts out with. $7,452 to $8,456 for Head said a lot of them are the Fall 2012 semesunder a significant amount ter and double that of financial stress, and it’s for the Spring 2013 not acknowledged nearly semester — that is, enough. Even if they’re not if you’re in-state. If feeling the full force of it, you’re out of state, it’s still there in the back of the annual costs can their minds. range from $27,432 WINKLEMAN “It tends to get emotional to $29,440. That’s like for a lot of students,” he Columnist buying two brandsaid. “I’ve had a number new cars every year of students break down in for the next four years! tears in my office because of the So, how are you supposed to stress that this creates.” pay for such an expense if you Maybe because they’ve racked don’t have a good job or well- up a pile of credit card debt paid family members to rely and are gambling on having a on? Loans are the obvious an- good job once they graduate or swer. But what if you graduate are worrying about how they’re and can’t find a job? You have going to pay for textbooks and to pay your lenders back, but classes. Worse yet, there are how? some students who are strugThese kinds of questions have gling to eat at night because overwhelmed some students so they simply don’t have money bad that it’s brought them to for food. their knees while others have If you are one of these stuhad to sacrifice food for educa- dents, know that you’re not tion just to make it to gradua- alone and the Financial Success tion. Initiative is more than willing to Fortunately, there’s a new pro- help you out with these types of gram being steered by Financial issues. Planning Program Director AnTo set up an appointment for a drew Head who can help tackle free consultation, contact Head these tough financial matters through email at andrew.head@ one step at a time. It’s called the wku.edu or call 745-4733. DEVINN WINKLEMAN DIVERSIONS@WKUHERALD.COM
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Meredith Hall returns to all-sorority dorm SARAH STUKENBORG NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM After a two-year gap Meredith Hall is back to being an all-sorority dorm. Meredith opened in 1992 with the intention of being WKU’s sorority hall. When Alpha Delta Pi sorority moved out in 2010 because of the opening of their new house, there was a two-year time period in which a floor of Meredith was filled by nonsorority members. This semester Alpha Xi Delta sorority is taking over the secondand third-floor short wings of Meredith Hall. Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Mu, and Chi Omega lease floors in Meredith Hall as well. Nina Davis, a junior and member of AOPi, has lived in Meredith Hall for three semesters. “My favorite part of living here is being
able to live with all my sorority sisters and knowing everyone on my floor,” Davis said. Davis also explained that there is a study room on the AOPi floor that allows the girls to study together. The dorm rooms in Meredith Hall are set up in a suite style in which two rooms are conjoined by a bathroom. Each room is the home of two girls. Kateiri Kintz, a member of Omega Phi Alpha sorority, is a resident assistant in Meredith Hall this semester. “Each sorority leases a floor, but members of each sorority can pull in someone who is not affiliated with that sorority to live on the floor,” Kintz explained. This can mean the person is not a member of a sorority at all or just affiliated with a different sorority than
the one leasing the floor. Each girl living in Meredith Hall must have fulfilled at least twelve credit hours and be approved by the housing manager to live there. Kintz said her favorite part of living in the hall is seeing the differences in her dorm mates. “Living in Meredith gave me the opportunity to see the different facets of each of our residents by getting to know them and seeing how they interact with one another,” Kintz said. Ashley Turner, a member of the coed honors fraternity Phi Sigma Pi, likes living in Meredith because as an RA she gets to plan various dorm events. “Dorm events are something the girls can do to build community,” Turner said.
CROSS COUNTRY
WKU not satisfied with Belmont Opener
Junior Kim Dominguez JONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM came in 26th place with a time of 15:46.10, and Both the men’s and senior Vasity Chemweno women’s cross country came in 28th place with a teams had less-than- time of 15:54.8. stellar performances this “I knew (Hinken) was weekend in Nashville at going to do really well,” the season-opening Bel- Scott said. “It was other mont Opener. people that didn’t live up The men placed fifth to expectations.” out of a pool of nine Scott described Chemteams in the 5K, while weno, one of two sethe women were fifth niors on the Lady Topper out of eight teams in the squad, as a “huge” part of women’s 4K. the team. Other teams compet“I don’t think (Cheming included Tennessee, weno) is satisfied with Kentucky, Belmont, Ken- her finish,” Scott said. nesaw State, Vanderbilt, “It’s not something I am the Nashville Harriers, satisfied with either.” Lipscomb and Sun Belt But with Chemweno’s rival Middle Tennessee absence from both inState. door and outdoor track “I think we did OK con- this past season, Scott sidering it was the first remains optimistic about race,” women’s distance the senior. coach Michelle Murphy “She hasn’t run since Scott said. “There is a last November,” Scott lot of room for improve- said, “so Vasity will conment.” tinue to get better each The Lady Toppers’ race week.” was narrowly taken by Head Coach Erik JenVanderbilt, with a team kins said the Belmont score of 33. Kentucky was Opener “went OK.” right at their heels with a “Obviously there is a lot team score of 34. of work to do on (the men Lindsey Hinken’s 22nd and women’s teams), place finish was the high- but the kids came out to est for any of the Lady compete,” Jenkins said. Toppers. She finished the On the men’s side, 4K in 15:32.6 minutes. senior transfer Joseph
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Lehigh 3-0. Sophomore middle hitter Heather Boyan led the way for WKU in their tournament sweep. “In practice, we worked on one little thing in correcting our blocking, and that one little thing really helped us,” Boyan said. “It helped me in just thinking about it to get more blocks and be better defensively at the net.” She was named tournament MVP after posting 20 kills with a .531 hitting percentage versus Delaware and Lehigh. She also had 12 blocks against
Chebet made quite the start for his WKU debut, finishing 2nd in his race with a time of 15:18.7. “It was a great start,” Jenkins said, “He knows where he needs to be. He needs to just continue to work hard to get there.” Other top finishers for the Toppers were sophomore David Mokone, who came in 7th place with a time of 15:42.5 and sophomore Sean Hurd, who came in 20th with a time of 16:05.2. Jenkins said the entire WKU cross country team wasn’t satisfied with the way things went in Nashville. “I don’t think anybody is content with this finish,” Jenkins said. “Both teams know this was the opener, and it was time to just get the ‘jitters’ out of the way and get a chance to race when you haven’t raced in months.” The Toppers will travel back to Nashville on the 15th for the Commodore Classic and are hoping to have a better showing. “We are looking forward to being successful down the road,” Jenkins said. “We just need to be healthy when conference, regionals and nationals roll around.”
Virginia. “Heather had a breakout weekend for us, and we hope that’s a sign for the direction she’s headed,” Hudson said. Hudson said that if his offense plays well on Tuesday, this year’s Lady Toppers may be the ones to knock off Cincinnati. “We’ve been a much more competent serving team to this point in the season,” Hudson said. “…If we serve and pass well, I think we’re going to like our results.”
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One of my favorite moments from watching a DVD copy this weekend was the story of former WKU guard Wayne Chapman’s speech to the Tops. Chapman, who went on to coach Harper at Kentucky Wesleyan during the 1980s, took off his championship ring and placed it on the ground. He asked the players, ‘If someone put a championship on the ground, would you reach down for it, or would you dive on it?’ Chapman, who’s 67 years old, then dove out of his chair on top of the ring. Several players mentioned that pep talk in the documentary as a real illustration of what they needed to go do. Another cool story can be found in the DVD’s “extras” section, in which Harper, his wife Shannon, and guard Jamal Crook talk about the coach’s addiction to Diet Coke. Harper’s love for Diet Coke became a running joke among those near the program, as Harper always had one in hand
during press conferences and during games. But after a while, his wife became concerned he was drinking too much Diet Coke and asked if he could switch to water, at least during games. Harper said he was fine with making the beverage switch, but Crook wouldn’t let him. “We’ve made it this far with Diet Coke — you can start drinking water after the season,” Crook told his coach. Along the way, you also hear neat stories from forward George Fant and center Teeng Akol about their conversations the night before the Sun Belt title game, from ticket manager Matt Morrison about handling the logistics of two NCAA Tournament games in three days and from former coach Jim Richards about what he saw from Harper’s practices. So often when you witness a historic event you don’t really appreciate the meaning of it until after it’s over, when you can step back and see it in perspective. ‘25 Days’ does a great job of allowing viewers to do just that.
SOCCER WKU falls 1-0 to Minnesota
Minnesota’s Katie Thyken scored the game’s lone goal on Monday as the Golden Gophers shut out WKU 1-0 at the Minnesota Tournament in St. Paul, Minn. The Lady Toppers, who had scored 11 goals through their first five games, were shut out for the first time on Monday. WKU recorded three shots, all on goal, including a Chrissy Tchoula scoring chance in the 89th minute that was saved by Minnesota goalkeeper Cat Parkhill. The Lady Toppers’ next game will be a home date against Vanderbilt at 1 p.m. Sunday at the WKU Soccer Complex. —Herald staff
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Freshman wide receiver Austin Aikens dives for a successful catch during the first home football game of the 2012 season against the Austin Peay Governors at Smith Stadium. WKU won 49-10.
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the campus and the teachers so much,” Donahue said. She excelled right out of the gate her freshman year and set school records at the 100 fly and 200 fly during her first year on campus. She went on to set four WKU swimming records throughout her time on campus. Since winning her gold medal, Donahue has been speaking to schools across
the community about how hard work can pay off. Though she’s an easternTennessee native, Bowling Green and the surrounding areas have really embraced Donahue as one of their own, she said. Donahue, likewise, has embraced Bowling Green as her home. “Now when I tell people I’m going home, I’m talking about Bowling Green,” Donahue said. Donahue was honored at halftime of WKU’s football
game Saturday against Austin Peay. She was greeted with a standing ovation from fans that not only acknowledged her dedication and achievements for the university but also for her country. Russellville junior Clay Morris said he thinks Donahue can serve as a role model for freshmen. “Oh, it’s awesome,” Morris said. “She should be a great leader and example for the entire class of 2016.”
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Claire Donahue had one of the more notable summers of any WKU alumni over the past few months. At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Donahue, a former WKU swimmer, won a gold medal for Team USA in the 4x100 medley relay. Donahue swam the butterfly leg of the preliminary round in 58.05 seconds, helping Team USA advance to the medal rounds. She wasn’t one of the swimmers in the pool during the gold medal relay, but her contribution to the team’s preliminary finish was good enough to
qualify her for a gold medal. Donahue is the first athlete in WKU history to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympics and her achievement propelled her into conversation as one of the most celebrated athletes in WKU history. She’ll be back on campus at 6 p.m. Tuesday night when she speaks at the annual Freshman Assembly. This year’s assembly theme is “the best years of your life.” Several freshmen said they were lookDONAHUE ing forward to hearing Donahue speak on Tuesday about her experience being in their shoes just five years ago. London, Ky., freshman Ryan Shears said he’s
excited to see Donahue in person after watching her from his living room this summer. “It’ll be a humbling experience,” Shears said. “I cheered for her from my couch in the Olympics so it’ll be cool to listen to her Tuesday.” Donahue, a Lenoir City, Tenn., native, came to WKU as a freshman in 2007 and said she felt many of the same nerves that people in the audience Tuesday will have. “I was nervous, obviously, but I loved SEE DONAHUE A9
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'25 Days' a cool watch for WKU fans
BRAD STEPHENS NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM For 25 days this February and March, we all witnessed one of the most remarkable feats we’ll ever see. Most everyone should know the story by now. Ray Harper was named fulltime men’s basketball coach on Feb. 19. BRAD STEPHENS WKU lost to eventual nationSports Editor al champion Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament on March 15. In between those two dates was a whirlwind that included Harper’s “We’ve only just begun” speech, four comebacks in four days in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament and a historic comeback win over Mississippi Valley State, played at the NCAA Tournament in front of president Barack Obama. It’s that journey that’s captured and celebrated in “25 Days of Triumph: All-Access with 2011-12 Men’s Basketball from Transition to Tournament Success.” The documentary hit the shelves Tuesday and is on sale locally at Minit Mart stores and WKU athletic events and online through Amazon.com and WKUSports.com. It’s available on DVD for $19.95 and on Blu-Ray for $24.95. The challenge for the producers and directors, the Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network, was to take a sequence of events that everyone already knew about and give it a fresh take. SEE 25 DAYS A9
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WKU plays old foe Cincinnati Tuesday
(21-25, 25-22, 21-25, ELLIOTT PRATT SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM 25-13, 14-16). “You’d be dancing One team has con- around it if you didn’t sistently given WKU say they’ve been a thorn trouble in longtime in our side throughout coach Travis Hudson’s my career,” Hudson tenure: the Cincinnati said. The Lady Toppers Bearcats. “Year in and year out will be facing a Bearcat Cincinnati is one of the squad on Tuesday best programs in the which has struggled to country,” Hudson said. start the 2012 season. Cincinnati (1-5) is “Different teams match up well with different coming off its first win teams and Cincinnati of the season, coming has not always been a against Drake in the La Quinta Invitational in great matchup for us.” Hudson’s Lady Top- Las Cruces, N.M. Cincinnati’s Jordanne pers are 1-16 all-time in the matchup, but Scott ended the Drake WKU will be looking to victory with 17 kills, change that mark when seven digs and two they play the Bearcats blocks, while Turner at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in posted 20 kills and four digs. Cincinnati. “Their record is not Senior Jordyn Skinner has experienced those indicative of the kind of struggles and said Tues- team they are,” Hudson day night’s game will be said. “They’ve played a chance to reverse the one of the toughest schedules in the countrend. “We come in the gym try up until this point, everyday and just try and they’re going to be to work on our game,” another tough chalSkinner said. “Coach lenge.” Meanwhile, the Lady goes over some of the things that they do, but Toppers are coming off it’s mostly our execu- a tournament sweep at tion and our mentality the Holiday Inn Jeffertoward the game that son Cup in Charlottesville, Va. we work on.” WKU defeated tourLast year’s matchup was especially close. nament host Virginia WKU travelled to the 3-1, Delaware 3-0 and Queen City and lost 3-2 SEE VOLLEYBALL A8
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WKU senior wide receiver Marcus Vasquez and sophmore wide reciever Willie McNeal celebrate WKU's victory over Austin Peay Saturday. WKU won the game 49-10.
Toppers Roll — Tide Looms 1-0 WKU prepares for defending champ Alabama
LUCAS AULBACH SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM All summer, people asked coach Willie Taggart how his team would match up against Alabama, and all summer he told them the Toppers were focused on Austin Peay. With WKU’s season opener in the past, Taggart finally addressed the defending national champions when he took the podium at the team’s weekly media luncheon on Monday. “They are good,” he said of the Crimson Tide. “They are one of the best football teams out there, and to be honest with you, I think they might be the next expansion team to the NFL.” WKU (1-0) is scheduled to face Alabama on the road this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Toppers have momentum behind them after their 49-10 win over Austin Peay on Saturday. Senior quarterback Kawaun Jakes had one of his best games in a WKU uniform, completing 18 of 23 passes for 296 yards and four touchdown passes to one interception. He was helped by a strong showing from the defense. WKU held Austin Peay to just 154 total yards and gave up just 11 passing yards. Despite the statistics, Taggart said he wants to see a better effort from his defense on Saturday. He attributed most of the yards Austin Peay picked up to poor tackling. “They got the majority of their yards from missed tackles,” Taggart said. “We make those tackles and their stats would really be bad.” Junior running back Antonio Andrews was also an instrumental part of the win, with 228 all-purpose yards and one punt return for a touchdown. Junior running back Keshawn Simpson had 60 yards on eight carries but left in the second half with a knee injury. Taggart said on Monday that he didn’t think the injury was too severe, but Simpson will have an MRI done on Tuesday. Jakes and Andrews said they both understand what a win this weekend would mean for the program. “Shoot, we’re still trying to earn respect,” Andrews said on Monday. “We’re playing the
defending national champs. It would mean a lot to the city and to our conference.” WKU will have its work cut out. Alabama has won two of the past three national championships, is currently ranked No. 2 in the country and is hot off of a win over No. 8 Michigan. Despite the challenge, Taggart said the Toppers would not be intimidated by their opponent’s reputation. “I think this football team is over that,” he said. “We’re going to play Alabama — they haven’t won a national championship this year.” It’s not like WKU has never been in this position. Just last season the Toppers lined up against No. 1 LSU in Baton Rouge, La., for a non-conference regular season game. WKU hung with the Tigers in the first half before eventually falling 42-9. That November loss was the last losing effort for the Toppers and their only one in the last 11 months. Lingering memories from that game could keep his team from being overwhelmed against the Crimson Tide, Taggart said. “We played well the first half, second half we didn’t,” he said. “I think that game makes our guys understand we can compete with these guys. We can play with them. “But we’ve still got work to do. We’ve got to finish games when we play them and we got to play our ‘A’ game if we want to beat teams like that.” The LSU game is one of the only games WKU has played lately to compare to Alabama in terms of level of competition and stadium size. Bryant-Denny Stadium, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., seats 101,821 and can hold over 106,000 people, making it the fifth-largest stadium in the United States and eighth-largest in the world. Every guy on the field should be excited to play in front of that kind of crowd, sophomore safety Jonathan Dowling said. “If you can’t be amped enough to play in that game, you’re probably in the wrong profession,” Dowling said. “It’s gonna be 106,000. “That’s what every athlete looks forward to — the crowd going crazy. You’ve got to be amped.”
I think they might be the next expansion team to the NFL. — WIllie Taggart